Columbus East High School - Altis Yearbook (Columbus, IN)

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Far Below: Participants in the dedication cere- mony turn to salute the flag as trumpeter Joel Sasse plays the National Anthem. Displaying a variety of dress styles, dancers step to the music of the Don Glasser Orchestra. Governor Otis Bowen and Mayor Max Andress enjoy the box lunch picnic at Mill Race Park fol- lowing the dedication of Road 46 West SS Road 46 Dedication and Bicentennial Ball

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Dollars, puppets, quiz bowl provide bicentennial tribute New money began circulating in Co- lumbus and the rest of the nation in May when the banks began dis- tributing bicentennial two dollar bills. Citizens who purchased the bills on the first day of their existence had them cancelled for future proof that they were uncirculated. The bills were brought back into use because the gov- ernment could no longer afford to print only one dollar bills at the current in- flationary rate. Two dollar bills cut pro- duction costs in half. Area merchants had difficulties adjusting to the new bills because their cash drawers only al- lotted space for four types of bills, and the two dollar bill wasn’t one of them. The Heiken puppets entertained chil- dren as well as adults with their perfor- mance of Thirteen Stars” in the Red Room of the Cleo Rogers Memorial Li- brary. The Show featured historical events of the United States’ last 200 years. Damon Jones, senior; Debbie Grant junior; David Hoffman, junior; and team captain Karin Timour, senior, combined their historical knowledge to win the Bicentennial Quiz Bowl defeat- ing teams from Columbus North and Hauser. State Senator Robert Garton questioned the contestants over the past 200 years of our country, state, and county. The Bartholomew County Bicentennial Commission, Tri-County Underwriters Association, and the three high schools sponsored the com- petition. The East team won the event with a score of 690 over North’s 440 and Hauser’s 260. The contestants of the Bicentennial Quiz Bowl The judges for the Bicentennial Quiz Bowl, anxiously await the next question. George Utterback, Milford Annis, and Mildred Murray, also developed the questions used in the contest Heiken Puppets and Quiz Bowl S-7

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Citizens make 76 celebration a special event People made the Bicentennial a spe- cial event in Columbus as well as across the nation. They joined together to im- prove a section of highway. They joined together to celebrate their an- cestors’ accomplishments at a county- wide dance. Individual citizens and state and lo- cal governments combined efforts to beautify Road 46 West. Landscape ar- chitect Dan Kiley of Vermont planned the placing of 2000 trees and shrubs and three automatic flagpoles along Road 46 West between Road 31 A and Interstate 65. Federal beautification money purchased the trees and shrubs, but individuals and the city govern- ment provided funds for planting, flag- poles, and bridge cleaning. The road was renamed the Jonathan Moore Pike in honor of General Wash- ington’s personal bodyguard Jonathan Moore. Moore is buried in Bartholomew County and has relatives living in this area. Hoosier Governor Otis R. Bowen par- ticipated in the dedication ceremonies and other community Bicentennial ac- tivities during the day. A cross section of the county at- tended the Bicentennial Ball in the Commons. More couples than expected responded to the open invitation. A few couples added realism to the dance by wearing colonial attire. Below Left Bartholomew county residents visit between dances at the Bicentennial Ball at the Commons. Below; The Camp Atterbury 76 Colonial Dress Color Guard presents the flag at the dedication of Road 46 West.